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...presumed to have been destroyed during World War II. His books disappeared from the shops, and his name was stricken from The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia. He became an Orwellian unperson. Whether Babel was shot immediately after a sham trial or died in a forced-labor camp has never been known with any certainty. After Khrushchev "rehabilitated" Babel's name in 1954, the family received only a certificate giving an official death date of March...
...melancholy, Maupassant's detachment and Gogol's grotesque wit seem to fuse into the unmistakable Babel voice. It is a voice that can be heard most simply and clearly in You Must Know Everything, the title story of the collection. Considered to be his earliest known fiction, the story was discovered in manuscript and published in the Soviet Union...
Many of the 25 stories translated by Max Hayward for this edition were published in Russia during Babel's lifetime, but only a few even begin to approach the lyrical force of such concentrated conceptions as the widely known The Story of My Dovecot, Lyubka the Cossack and Salt. The Jewess, longest story in the book and presumed to be a fragment of a proposed novel, touches on one of Babel's most forceful and most personal themes-the conflicting needs of a Soviet Jew to retain his traditions and be a correct citizen. The Jewess...
...past few weeks has been one of the most emotionally charged disputes ever to take place in the City's politics. Especially for its proponents, rent control came to be a symbolic showdown, a last ditch struggle against the forces which have been inexorably transforming the Cambridge they have known into a new City--one which they are best regard suspiciously...
...proposed Inner Belt highway, the new NASA center, and above all, an influx of new, would-be residents who are soaking up housing and driving up rents. People do literally get thrown out of their homes in Cambridge though, it must be admitted, how many do is not known...